Adventures in Web Development.

Year-End Review

This has been a very good and productive year. Lots of articles written, podcasts listened to, articles and books read, company and client projects, side-projects, travels, video games played, anime series and movies, video tutorials and talks watched. In this blog post I’ll try to recollect some of those.

Articles Written

I’m not going to list out every article I’ve written on this blog for this year. We have the archives for that. So here are the articles that I consider the best from 2014. These are based from the number of responses I got from both the commenting system and social media:

Company and Client Projects

I’m really thankful for having a great boss who always gives me some nice and cool projects to work on. This year I worked on a total of 7 company projects. 1 of those was from the previous company that I worked for. I joined my current company in late March this year so there’s that 1 leftover project. Here are some of the company projects that I’m most proud of:

As for the client project, I don’t actively look for them and even if I get one, I usually reject it because of lack of experience on the technologies to be used and overall lack of interest. There’s only one project that got through the tight screening, and that is the ebay store automator.

Side-projects

There’s an abundance of side-projects this year. I usually do these projects to automate some of the tasks that I usually do by hand, or to get my hands dirty on a specific technology I’ve never worked with before. Here are some of those:

Travels

I recently got a car so I naturally got exposed more exposure to the outside world as an excuse for getting some driving experience. Here are some of the places I’ve been to this year. I’ve mostly visited towns inside the same province where I live:

Botanical Garden, San Fernando City, La Union

Intake Dam, Sudipen, La Union

Bahay na Bato, Luna, La Union

Occalong Falls, Luna, La Union

Callao Caves, Penablanca, Cagayan

Aparri, Cagayan

Basilica Minore of Our Lady of Piat, Piat, Cagayan

Baluarte, Vigan City, Ilocos Sur

Pindangan Ruins, San Fernando City, La Union

Pugo Adventure, Pugo, La Union

Basilica Minore of Our Lady of Charity, Agoo, La Union

Namacpacan Church, Luna, La Union

Balay Anito Falls, Santol, La Union

Video Games

Not really a lot. I just played a bunch of Pokemon on my Nintendo DS Lite. These days I barely even touch it since I’ve already finished all the Pokemon games available for DS. That’s why I’m planning on selling it to buy the 3DS which apparently have some pretty badass Pokemon Games in Full 3D.

Anime Series

I’m a big anime fan, and I’m probably watching more than what I should be watching. At most around 40 anime series per year. But here are the only ones that I can recommend:

Parasyte

Hamatora

Haikyu

Amagi Brilliant Park

Hunter x Hunter (2011 Remake)

Free!

Noragami

Terra Formars

Nanatsu no Taizai

Yowamushi Pedal

Tokyo Ghoul

Shingeki no Bahamut

Garo: The Animation

Terror in Resonance

Captain Earth

Log Horizon

Sword Art Online (Season 2)

Chunibyo

Chaika – The Coffin Princess

World Trigger

Barakamon

Brynhildr in the Darkness

Kagerou Project

Psycho Pass (Season 2)

Aldnoah.Zero

Akatsuki no Yona

Akame Ga Kill

Movies

Lots of good movies this year but here’s the best:

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Captain America: Winter Soldier

X-men: Days of Future Past

Lucy

Divergent

Cloverfield

Talks

I don’t really go to conferences so I only watched talks from all over the world via Youtube. I’ve watched a lot of them this year but I’ll only pick this one talk: